Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution-- and how it can renew America / Thomas L. Friedman.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008الطبعات:1st edوصف:438 pages ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374166854 (hbk)
- 0374166854 (hbk)
- GE197 F76 2008
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | GE197 F76 2008 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000100322 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | GE197 F76 2008 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010000100321 |
Includes index.
I. WHERE WE ARE. Where birds don't fly -- Today's date: 1 E.C.E. Today's weather: hot, flat, and crowded -- II. HOW WE GOT HERE. Our carbon copies (or, too many Americans) -- Fill 'er up with dictators -- Global weirding -- The age of Noah -- Energy poverty -- Green is the new red, white, and blue -- III. HOW WE MOVE FORWARD. 205 easy ways to save the earth -- The energy internet: when IT meets ET -- The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones -- If it isn't boring, it isn't green -- A million Noahs, a million arks -- Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, buy one, get four free) -- IV. CHINA. Can red China become green China? -- V. AMERICA. China for a day (but not for two) -- A democratic China, or a banana republic?
Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.